Fixing Melbourne

A minor departure from the usual Cycle Chic fare. This chap was at the same hotel in Melbourne - the ultra cool Hotel Olsen - and came rolling up on this Cecil Walker fixie.

Cool chap on a lovely bike from a cool Australian bikemaker.

Atlanta Cycle Chic

Oh, goodness. Spotted this on the Cycle Chic radar [we see everything...] and we were compelled to blog it tout suite. Some classic cycle chic from the Atlanta Street Fashion blog.

This cyclist recieves instant and lifetime Cycle Chic citzenship.

Berlin Cycle Chic

My good friend AK [you know her all too well from this blog post...] just got back from Berlin - the place Copenhageners go when they want to feel even cooler. This is the Cycle Chic goodness she spotted in the city. Fabulous.

Bicycle Wine

What wine to drink is always a pertinant question when travelling. In Melbourne, however, it was quite simple to choose. Rolling. Complete with a lovely cyclist on the label. For more wine labels featuring bicycles and cyclists, check out this post over at Copenhagenize.com.

Regarding the Rolling wine, great minds think alike. Sue over at Freedom Cyclist in Australia is way ahead of me!

Dinking. Yes... dinking.

So I learned a new word whilst in Melbourne. Dinking. That's New World Antipodean for 'doubling'. Here's Lou and Emma (Creative Director and Marketing and Development Manager of the State of Design Festival, respectively) heading off to a party after a night out on the day of my keynote talk at the festival.

Dinking. Funny how that rhymes with drinking. :-)

Melbourne Cycle Chic - and a demonstration

I've now returned home to Copenhagen after giving a keynote speech at the brilliant State of Design festival in Melbourne. It was fantastic to meet so many wonderful people but especially fantastic to meet some Cycle Chicistas who made the trip to Melbourne for the talk. At left is Jenny - AKA Unity Finesmith - from Auckland Cycle Chic and, at right in the lovely green gloves, is Saskia from A Spirit of Place and Cycle Chic Sundays - Sydney.


Here's another friend, Dr Paul Martin, with his wife on the left and Jenny on the right. In addition to the State of Design keynote, there was a brilliantly, well-dressed bicycle-related protest on the Saturday. We all went for a bike ride on the new bike share bikes in Melbourne. Which sounds nice until you consider the fact that Melbourne has bike helmet laws. We were part of a protest/demonstration and you can read much more about it over at Copenhagenize.com


Here are some other chic cyclists enjoying the ride and the protest.


And a spot of Canine Demonstration Cycle Chic. His name is Bon Bon.

All in all it was quite possibly the chic'est demonstration I've ever been involved in.

Bicycle Flash Mob in Belgium

Brilliant flash mob in the Central Train Station in Brussels featuring... bicycles!

Thanks to Lars for the link.

Quite Cool

Funking up my town. Love it.

The Cat's Meow

I've got a game going on with some friends. There are thousands of photos in the Cycle Chic archives, as well as all the photos from Copenhagenize.com. They test me to see if I have various photos of bicycle-related situations. Like 'you have a photo of someone playing an instrument on a bicycle?' Yeah... duh. Several... :-) "Dog in a basket?" Dozens and dozens.

I discovered, however that one shot I have never taken is of a cat in a bicycle basket. At a lovely summer party a few weeks ago at my friend Kenny's I was telling my friend Dorthe from Biomega about this. She just smiled and said she'd send me a photo. Here it is. A cat in a basket. Nice.

I can die now. No... wait... I still have to take the shot myself! But until then, Dorthe's shot will suffice.

Corner

One corner. A bunch of Copenhageners on two wheels.